Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> (29/05/2011):
> I also had this issue when I used dash as /bin/sh, and from gdm. In
> .xsession-errors there were some error messages about spurious "(".
> My guess is dash is not happy with bashisms in scripts, certainly
> $(.
If you mean $(command), that's not a bashism. Here's POSIX shell for
you:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html
Particularly:
2.6.3 Command Substitution
Now, if you have spotted a particular file or line misbehaving, please
mention which it is exactly.
Mraw,
KiBi.
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